Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to impose sanctions on Rossotrudnichestvo . This was reported on the official website of the Ukrainian president. The sanctions include, among other things, blocking assets, restricting trade operations, stopping cultural and scientific exchanges, and other forms of international cooperation.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' has approved the decision of the Moscow City Diocese court to defrock Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev. This was reported on the diocese's website. According to the patriarch’s resolution , Kuraev will be defrocked after the issuance of a corresponding decree.

On April 3, in the Novolaksky District of Dagestan, police stopped 29 Chechen residents on horseback who were heading to the grave of the 19th-century Chechen commander Baysangur Benoevsky in the village of Yaryk-Su. This was reported to Interfax by the press service of the Novolaksky District administration. Earlier, a video of a group of horsemen with Chechen flags was spread on social networks. One of them, riding up to a group of men, asks what position one of them holds.

The organizers say that they “did everything” to avoid conflicts with the authorities "Artdokfest" This year, the Documentary Cinema Film Festival was supposed to be held from April 2 to 9 in Moscow and from April 3 to 10 in St. Petersburg. In Moscow, shows are held at the Karo 11 Cinema October. In St. Petersburg, they were planned in the House of Cinema and at the Landok film studio.

Chris McGrath / Getty Images cargo ship passes through the Bosphorus. January 17, 2018 More than a hundred retired Turkish admirals opposed the Istanbul channel, the construction project of which was approved by the Turkish government this week. The military fears that its construction threatens the strategic security of this country. Environmentalists and the mayor of Istanbul also object to this project, the initiator of which President Recep Erdogan.

On April 2, perfusionist Georgy Kondratov participated in an open-heart operation, which was successfully completed by the doctors of the Cardiac Surgery Center in Blagoveshchensk , despite the fire in the building. On April 4, Kondratov posted several videos from the operating room on Instagram.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them. In this issue: “Casta” hangs out under the winter sun, the “casukoma” leads the heat in the assembly hall, the artists of the 4ad label write down covers on each other, and “thank you” and “red -digit division” - to Tatyana Bulanova.

Khalil Mazraawi / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Hamza Ben Hussein, April 2012 About 20 people were arrested in Jordan on charges of conspiracy against King Abdullah II , writes The Washington Post with reference to an intelligence source. It is reported that the conspiracy received “foreign support” and that the king’s relatives, the leaders of the Jordanian tribes (belonging to which remains an important element of identity) and the country's political elite participated in it.

The organizers of the documentary film festival "Artdocfest" have cancelled the screenings of films that were to take place at the Cinema House in St. Petersburg. This was reported in the festival's Facebook group. The opening of Artdocfest took place the day before at the Cinema House in St. Petersburg. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Rospotrebnadzor officers came and sealed off the halls where the screenings were to take place.

Mahmoud Khaled / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Ceremony of transportation of Mumiy Pharaohs to the New Museum in Cairo, April 3, 2021 In the evening of April 3, a solemn ceremony of transportation of the Mumiy of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the new museum was held in Cairo. It was called the "Golden Paras of the Pharaohs". 22 mummies (18 pharaohs and four queens) and 17 sarcophagi moved from the Cairo Egyptian Museum to the National Museum of Egyptian civilization.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. “We go to the snowdrift, and he says:“ Yes, I live here. ” Special Corps Irina Kravtsova - about why the homeless people cannot return to their former life In Russia there is no official statistics on how many homeless people are in the country. According to various estimates , from one and a half to four million people live on the street.

At a street art exhibition at Seoul's Lotte World Mall, two patrons accidentally defaced an abstract painting by artist JonOne (real name Joe Andrew Perello). It is reported by ABC News. The painting was not covered with glass due to its large size. Next to her were brushes and paints with which she was drawn. They were part of the exhibition as symbols of the artist's creative path, the organizers of the exhibition said.

On one of the hacker forums, the personal data of more than 533 million Facebook users were published. This was reported to Business Insider by the technical director of cybersecurity company Hudson Rock, Elon Gal, who drew attention to the leak. The forum posted full usernames, phone numbers, dates of birth, biographical information, and in some cases email addresses. According to Gal , the leak affected users from 106 countries.

Interview with the artist Zhang Huan - about the exhibition in Moscow, the “fake” Ai Weiwei and the victory of China over coronavirus Marco Secchi / Getty images Chinese artist Zhang Huan, a graduate of the Beijing Academy of Arts, became famous in the 1990s thanks to his radical performances.

A fragment of the new novel by the Nobel laureate of Cazuo Ishiguro “Clara and the Sun”-about the robot-Androide and its mistress Agnis leznins / unsplash On April 28, an Inspiria published a new novel by the English writer Cazuo Isiguro “Clara and the Sun” (translation by Leonid Motylev). This is the first book of the author after receiving the Nobel Prize in literature in 2017.